> Marcel's right -- since your data's coming in slowly during the popen, > you'd either have to use a thread.. or you might be able to avoid threads > by using Fl::add_fd() with popen() as shown here: > > http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/#add_fd > > This is one of the few instances where add_fd() should work across platforms > correctly. > > > Marcel Dejean wrote: > > Call popen() from another thread, so that the GUI can continue to run(). > > > > On 3/1/09, Greg Ercolano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: > >>> I've been using FLTK to wrapper very complex engineering calculations.. > >> See Fl::check(): > >> http://fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/Fl.html#Fl.check > >> > >> Call Fl::check(); within your calculation so that FLTK > >> can have some CPU to keep the interface alive. > >> > >> Or, run your calculation in a child thread, so that > >> Fl::run() can run in the main thread to keep the interface alive.
Thanks, it took me a while to figure it out, but I think I see a way to make FL::add_fd() work for me -- I do have to re-structure my code a bit. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
